Hey.
I am new at the forum, also newbie when it comes to on my own coding css.

I have both checked out this forum´s posts and other forums and homepages, without luck finding what I´m looking for.
AND I have tried to learn about positions and float (padding/margin), also without luck (I think that all places I´ve been there is not so much examples. I am more of a practical person than theory… ;) :oops: ).

To get some help, still not got a homepage that I´m satisfied with, so I give you a printscreen of a background-image.
Hopefully you can see it.

I have been thinking of doing the page with
- body
-(div id=bg)
- wrap
- content
(-maincontent)
- sidebar (I haven´t decided do I need one or not)
- footer

Okey, to my problem(s). :)

- The problem to understand positions and float (padding/margin)

- I would like to know how I the best way can get my text to fit into the “white space”? Is it okey to get the padding/margin to over 150px or what´s the “righter” way?

- I am confused about where is the best place to set the background image - in the body-tag or as a div tag (div id=bg)?
Have tried to get an answer to the div-tag, looking around for solutions, but there is so many ways, and I don´t get how the position/float should be for the bg image and the other divs. :red:  8-/

- I don´t know what´s the way to do things, for example the (main)content-tag(s). Should they be height on them or not? It seems so “funny” at the index-site, where there is just a few senses, and good on other sides where there is more text? What is the common way to do this?

- How to get a picture in the footer, that fits the layout? And actually same problem as the maincontent - how to get the footer to fit the layout?

Okey, hopefully I get som help, (because I am desperate :-) ) .

Thanx in advance!  :coolsmile: